It’s like a preparation for staying in Olympic stadium Lluís Companies Over the next season and a half, the FC Barcelona do your training on The Angels, on their 2023 tour of USAwithin Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the magnificent stadium that hosted the Games in 1932 and 1984 and will do so again in 2028 with a capacity of 78,467 spectators. An iconic setting in the history of sports with a link to the Barcelona club, a small link in the galaxy of sports disputes experienced but huge for what it meant for Spanish athletics in its time.
In the stadium where Barcelona trains these days, the middle-distance runner Jose Manuel Abascal On August 12, 1984, he won the bronze medal in the 1,500-meter event at the Games of The Angels. the british defeated him Sir Sebastian Coe and Steve Cram, but it was an absolute victory for Spanish athletics, which at that time had only obtained one Olympic medal, silver at 50 km. march on Moscow’1980 together Jordi Llopart.
The athlete who became a legend in athletics, the Cantabrian Jose Manuel Abascalwas active at the time in the athletics section of the FC Barcelonawhere he played between 1980 and 1985. Therefore, it can be said that a Barça athlete is an Olympic medalist in Memorial Coliseum. Throughout history, Spanish athletics have won only 15 Olympic medals, which gives an idea of the scale of the achievement of abascal.
of those los angeles olympics there is also the indelible memory of the mythical silver medal Epi, Solozábal and ‘Lagarto’ De la Cruzwho earned a silver medal in basketball, only to lose in the final against the United States team with Michael Jordan, Pat EwingBesides others.
He Barcelona it has a close link to the Olympic Games. Just talking about football, they achieved gold as azulgranas like Guardiola, Ferrer, Pinilla, Messi, Neymar or Rafinha. Many others are silver or bronze, such as El ‘minster’, Xavi, heart, gabri, Ronaldinho or like legendary players Samitier, Zamora, Sancho either It’s morning.
Source: La Verdad
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